As the second issue of Greg Rucka and Michael Lark’s stunning new Image Comics series Lazarus hit the stands this week–and the press of San Diego Comic Con International content finally started to ease up–we dug back into our phone records to find a conversation we’d had about the first issue of the series nearly a month ago now.Both Rucka and Lark joined ComicBook.com to talk about launching a book that’s so different from much of what else is on the market right now, what they hope to do with Lazarus and to tease a little bit of what Forever Carlyle has in store for fans in the coming months…ComicBook.com: How do you go about doing the body language for something like the “resurrection” part of the story? In the first issue there’s that sequence where she comes back from the apparently-dead and she’s a little spastic and it wasn’t just the bad-ass “I’m going to stand up and do this.”Lark: I’d gone through a couple of different drafts of that particular scene and I just happened to be watching TV late at night and The Fifth Element was on. And I thought about the scene where she was being birthed in that and I thought to myself that Forever is kind of being born again here, and it’s going to be yucky and painful.Then there was that great line that Greg wrote that was “…and it hurts. God, but it always hurts.” That was the line right there. You have to remember that Greg is giving me very good scripts.Greg lets me know what the characters are all about in those scenes so it’s just a matter of tinkering and letting the characters act. They usually tell me what to do. It takes a little bit for that to start happening but Forever is at the point now where she’s telling me what to do. I don’t get to make up her attitude or her body language; she has it all her own.
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